Topic 'Re: [Northeast] Problems with AVAST! (AntiVirus) and FIOS?' in forum 'Verizon Fiber Optics' - dslreports.com

Re: [Northeast] Problems with AVAST! (AntiVirus) and FIOS?

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:35:18 EDT

Smith6612 posted :

I have a quad core i3750 and an SSD so it was not a problem of CPU useage at all. It was totally just sapping my bandwidth.

I wouldn't be surprised either way. It tends to sap the bandwidth in recent months on my OC'd i7-920 box whenever I have it plugged into Datacenter Internet or FiOS. The older versions of Avast! I know were much lighter overall. Seems to have either taken on bloat or needs some optimizations.

Re: [Northeast] Problems with AVAST! (AntiVirus) and FIOS?

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:56:55 EDT

Darkhand posted : I have a quad core i3750 and an SSD so it was not a problem of CPU useage at all. It was totally just sapping my bandwidth.

Re: [Northeast] Problems with AVAST! (AntiVirus) and FIOS?

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:45:46 EDT

Smith6612 posted : Avast! has a network scanning component in there that real-time scans network traffic. It's quite CPU heavy so on slower processors, speeds do suffer greatly. A 2.2Ghz Pentium Dual Core for example, goes 100% CPU with one core Windows Interrupts, another core Avast! scanning when downloading at close to 8MB/s. Disabling Avast! brings usage down to 30% CPU downloading at 100Mbps on the same CPU.

You can shut off the scanning component (Network and Web shield) or disable some of the more resource intensive scanning features of it.

Re: [Northeast] Problems with AVAST! (AntiVirus) and FIOS?

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:33:51 EDT

maleyj posted : I would recommend switching to Microsoft Security Essentials for real time protection and Malwarebytes Anti Malware for on demand scanning - I have experienced similar issues on a few client's machines with Avast.

Re: [Northeast] Problems with AVAST! (AntiVirus) and FIOS?

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:07:47 EDT

hubrisnxs posted : it's been reported in the past that Avast reports slow speeds on the fios. Not sure why.

Re: [Northeast] Problems with AVAST! (AntiVirus) and FIOS?

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:50:22 EDT

matcarl posted : I notice sometimes some antivirus progarms slow things down, some of them do too much in the background and mess up the computer performance. It's a tradeoff of having to risk a virus, it sucks.

[Northeast] Problems with AVAST! (AntiVirus) and FIOS?

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:55:43 EDT

Darkhand posted : Hey All,

I started having problems with my speeds a few days ago and my wife said she was having problems as well. I checked both of my PCs and sure enough I was getting really low speeds.

FIOS Checked on all areas and just sent a tech out to my house and gave me a new Fios (Red1?) router. Yet I was STILL having speed problems.

So I disabled AVAST! Anti-Virus and all of the sudden BOOM my speeds jumped back up.

Is anyone else having issues with their AVAST! AV and their internet connections? I have not messed with the AVAST! settings at all.